Descript Status · History · Incident #5510

RESOLVED

Playback Failures

Critical · Started Jul 14, 2026 · 12:10 PM

Duration

1h 4m
Severity

Critical
Detection lead

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User reports

Peak 1/hr

Summary

Playback Failures

This issue is now resolved.

Started

Jul 14, 2026 · 12:10 PM
Resolved

Jul 14, 2026 · 1:14 PM
Duration

1h 4m
Severity

Critical

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Monitoring
Jul 14 · 12:10 PM Descript

We are aware of an issue in Descript that caused playback failures from around 6:15am Eastern. At this time, functionality is fully restored and we are monitoring to ensure the system continues to be operational.
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Resolved
Jul 14 · 1:14 PM Descript

This issue is now resolved.

User reports · incident window

Report volume over time

Hourly report count. Red bars mark the incident window.

Peak: 1 reports/hr

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